Stratas Foods’ Chef Vincent Barcelona adds culinary craft to manufacturers’ new clean label foods
The issue of clean and clear food labels means different things for those in various parts of the food industry. For Chef Vincent Barcelona, director of culinary and corporate chef at Stratas Foods and THE KITCHEN, the issue was beginning to take shape almost a decade ago.
Before taking his role with Stratas Foods, a leading supplier of oil and shortening, Barcelona was a restaurant chef in the famed Hudson Valley region. He was the decision maker when it came to ingredient suppliers. He saw that his customers were demanding both clean and clear explanations for where their food came from, how it was prepared and what it was prepared with. The industry has since become driven by the farm-to-fork movement.